Tea party groups want IRS inquiry

Members of a tea party group targeted by the IRS spoke out Monday, calling on Congress to investigate why they were unfairly targeted.

“A simple apology on a conference call is not enough by a long shot — Congress needs to investigate this and find out how many more lies the IRS is telling,” Tea Party Patriots founder Jenny Beth Martin said on Fox News.

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An IRS official apologized last week in a conference call for unfairly targeting conservative groups – including Tea Party Patriots — that were seeking nonprofit status. Tea Party Patriot’s national coordinator Keli Carender said on CNN that there are still many questions that remain unanswered.

“We need to know how did this start? Who started it? Who knew what and when did they know it? How far up does this go? Does it go up all the way into Treasury? Does it go up into the administration? Who — who is a part of this? How are these decisions made? And what is going to happen to the people that did it?” Carender said on CNN.

Carender continued: “If there are no consequences for people who abuse their power like this, then it’s not going to stop. And it’s not going to stop the Tea Party Patriots. It will be some other group that gets singled out. And I don’t think any of us want that.”